Reposted by James Hurst
Superb analysis of AI prose: how it works and how it feels silentroom.media/the-craft/br...
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AI Has Finally Learned to Write Perfectly. That's the Worst Thing That Could Have Happened.
"Slop" went into Merriam-Webster in under two years; "spam" took fifteen. A history of the word, the ten tells that give machine prose away, and why the detector is always chasing a moving target.
![Comic. [Person with long hair pointing to diagram with Tyrannosaurus Rex standing next to a person.] PERSON: We now believe the primary prey of Tyrannosaurus Rex was these humans who kept standing next to it for scale.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreih526pxolmi4pgqdcdu435uhkrrldhpwq6rrsnk4hfs6dskbe5r7e)
